Tool-holder



(No Model.) W. MAGMURTRIE & E. H. HUM-SEER.

TOOL HOLDER.

Patented May 6, 1890.

By tad HM! z 2 A VTTOHNEYQS.

UNITED STATES \VILLIAh/LMACMURTRIE AND EDWIN H. HOMSHER, OF PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA.

TOOL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,335, dated May 6, 1890.

Application filed September 4, 1889. erial No. 322,959. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it .known that we, \VILLIAM MACMUR- TRIE and EDWIN H. HOMSHER, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Tool-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to an improvement in tool holders orv handles, and has for its obj ectv to provide a handle capable of receiving and holding burnishers of all descriptions, and also files either with or without tangs or shanks, and especially files having their tan gs or shanks broken off.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the handle, partly in section, illustrating a tangless file held therein. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the file and a partial vertical section through the handle. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on line 00 w of Fig. 1. Fig. el is a similar section on line 3 y of Fig. 1.

In carrying out the invention the body of the handle 10 is preferably made of .wood and given any suitable or approved contour. The upper portion of the handle is reduced in diameter, whereby a shoulder llis formed, and a vertical slot or channel 12 is produced in the said upper reduced portion of the handle, which slot or channel extends downward a distance in the body of the handle, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. The slot or channel 12 is produced in the center of the upper reduced portion of the handle, forming thereby two members A and B, the member A being of greater length than the opposed member B, as best shown in Fig. 2. The handle is fitted with a ferrule 13, which closely hugs the upper reduced portion and rests upon the shoulder 11. This ferrule, when the handle is to be utilized to hold a file 14 having its tang or shank 15 broken, is provided with side projections 16, adapted to be located, when the ferrule is placed in position, opposite the sides of the slot or channel 12. The ferrule is of such interior contour that it will closely lit the exterior surface of the upper reduced portion of the handle, and the said ferrule is provided with an inner semicircular integral extension or shoulder 17, adapted to rest upon the upper edge of the shorter member B of the handle, as shown in Fig. 2. The inner face of this extension or shoulder is flush with one side wall of the slot or channel 12, whereby when the ferrule is placed upon the handle a diametrical opening 18 is formed therein, registering with the slot or channel 12. In this opening and the slot or channel 12 the end of the file having a broken tang is introduced, and is rigidly held in the handle by a set-screw 19, extending through one side of the ferrule and also preferably through the longer member A to a contact with one side of the file.

It will be observed that by means of-ahandle constructed as above described a file which would ordinarily have to be thrown away may be provided with a proper handle, and thereby fitted for use. It will also be observed that as the slot or channel 12 extends clownward in the body of the handle 'a filc having a perfect tang or shank may be used in connection with the handle, as well as an imperfect file.

Having thus described our invention, we

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a tool-handle comprising a body having an upper reduced end provided with a vertical slot, forming two members, one of which is shorter than the other, a ferrule fitted to the upper reduced portion,.provided with an inner extension or shoulder contacting with the upper surface of the reduced member of the body, and a set-screw passed through the said ferrule and the reduced portion of the handle into said slot or channel, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a tool-holder for the purpose described, the combination, with a body portion provided with an upper reduced end, avertical bore in the said body, and a vertical slot or channel passed through the ferrule into the said slot 111 the upper reduced end registering With the or channel, substantially as shown and de- 10 body-bore and forming" two upper members scribed.

- of unequal 1ength, of 2L ferrule adapted to fit XVILLIAM MACMURTRIE.

5 over the reduced bifurcated portion of the EDWVIN II. HOMSIIER.

body, provided with an inner extension or Witnesses: shoulder capable of fitting upon the upper JOHN FITZPATRICK,

surface of the shorter member, and a set-screw F. M. BROWER. r 

